This may be of interest to Launceston-based teachers. It may be also of interest to some older secondary student, and those who are want to find out what...
This is pretty clever.
http://preview.local.live.com/ Wndows Live Local Earth preview.
This research project from Microsoft is their idea of where the...
Comstra recently advertised a free seminar on IP-based phone technology
for small to medum business, to be held at Wrest Point Casino, Wed
March 8. 4:30-6:00...
Microsoft has just released the daylight saving patch on Microsoft
Update and Windows Update. But a similar patch has been available for
about 4 months....
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0301/p17s01-alar.html
A database of stolen artworks that is being used to reduce international art theft Oddly, it seems to...
The idea of a secret "password" to get access to some special place or thing is quite ancient and probably emerged not long after human languages. It is still...
Hi all every week or so someone asks for a set of flash tutorials
Flash ClassRoom http://www.flashclassroom.com/cms/flashclassroom/index.php seems to be...
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/03/06/ap2572105.html
"Students remember more of the advertising than they do the news stories shown on Channel...
A colleague just sent this collection of different URLs that are all Google. That is, they all resolve to Google's web site. It may be instructive to see why....
Dear all
you may have received a mailout indicating that the TASITE AGM was March
9th
This has now been moved to March 29th.
Venue and guest speaker will...
A while back there was mention of the $100 laptop project. This is apparently progressing quite well, and there is some serious thought going into how these...
ken price
kenjprice@...
Mar 8, 2006 8:47 am
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The new ultra-portable computing device project from Microsoft, Origami, is now shown on their web site
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/umpc/hardware.mspx...
http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-best-license-free-official-fonts
These may be of use if you want an increased range of professionally-designed fonts....
Interested in how each of the three major political parties intends to manage and promote ICT in Tasmania? This ACS pre-election forum could be of interest...
Dear all Recently I received a flier from Studywiz about this meeting on Tuesday 21st. . Tasmanian evening of cheese, wine, and Studywiz, planned for Tuesday...
This article seems to be a bit above the average in the discussion of the role of computer games in cognition. It makes a few unsubstantiated claims but goes...
This may be relevant to those interested in the role of Open Source
software within educational and other settings. It is sponsored by ACS
and industry...
Do you think year 9 students would be welcome? I have 4 boys who are really interested in it and who are in the process of setting up their own business....
On the same theme Natural-Born Cyborgs : Minds, Technologies, and the Future of Human Intelligence by Andy Clark makes a similar point. Andy's basic...
TASITE (Tasmanian Society for Information Technology in Education) Annual General Meeting followed by
Guest presentation on rewarding the innovative use of...
Interesting and consistent with my experience today. I introduced my senior IT students to Lemmings today. Most are very keen game players. They love...
Worried by copyright and legal issues over musical and sound performances?
Freesound http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/index.php has a database of sounds that are...
'At a ceremony to honor excellence in education blogging yesterday, winners of the first-ever eSchool News "Best of the Education Blog" Awards talked about the...
Thanks for the link to your blogs Margaret - I posted comments on 3 (a year 7 girl and 2 year 10 boys) and got replies from all three within an hour or two -...
Sue & Roger
rsstack@...
Mar 25, 2006 11:26 pm
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Hi Margaret, Thanks for sharing this and congratulations to you all on the work you are pioneering at Newtown. I have a query though, how do students feel...
